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Israel Announces Yet More Settlement Expansions

by Jason Ditz | Aug 15, 2011

Israel Announces Yet More Settlement Expansions | PA warns move destroyed ‘what is left’ of peace process

US Congressman: US Economic Woes Won’t Affect Israel Aid

by John Glaser | Aug 15, 2011

U.S. Congressman Steny Hoyer (D-MD) said Wednesday that financial challenges "will not have any adverse effect on America's determination to meet its promise to Israel." The blunt statement by the second-highest ranked Democrat in the House of Representatives...

Palestinian MP Confirms UN Security Council Statehood Vote in September

by Jason Ditz | Aug 14, 2011

Palestinian MP Confirms UN Security Council Statehood Vote in September | US veto stands in way of potential statehood

Israel Approves 4,300 New Homes in East Jerusalem

by John Glaser | Aug 11, 2011

Israel's interior minister gave final authorization to build 1,600 apartments in Palestinian East Jerusalem and will approve 2,700 more in coming days. Adding further damage to the beleaguered "peace process," the settlement authorization prompted senior Palestinian...

Israeli Court Orders Settlement Dismantled

by John Glaser | Aug 2, 2011

Israel's supreme court on Tuesday ordered the evacuation of an illegal Jewish settlement built on privately owned Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank. In the initial petition for its removal back in 2006, both the court and the Israeli government admitted that...

Israel Subsidies Untouched by US Budget Crisis

by John Glaser | Jul 27, 2011

Israel is suing a group of poor Bedouin Palestinians in the Negev desert for over $500,000, the claimed costs of demolishing their village each time they rebuild it. Israeli authorities have destroyed, and the Bedouin have rebuilt, the homes in al-Araqib more than 20...